The expert said: ‘Occasionally, as if she has given herself a mental push to “perform” for the occasion, she tries to smile broadly but this merely exaggerates the tension.’

Kavanaugh is accused of ‘manhandling’ his wife’s right shoulder, almost pulling her off balance, Mr Kermode said.

‘He continues to pat her as if trying to get attention but she looks everywhere else but to him.

‘At one stage she even would rather look at Trump.’

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Kavanaugh officially became a member of the high court on Saturday and took his first job on the bench on Tuesday.

It brought a close to a deeply contentious nomination process that sparked mass protests, an FBI investigation and a national reckoning over power, gender and sexual assault.

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Kavanaugh was accused by several women of sexual misconduct, including California professor Christine Blasey Ford, who testified under oath that the judge tried to assault her at a high school party decades ago.

He adamantly denies the allegations.

A body language expert claims Ashley Kavanaugh would rather look at her daughter then her husband Brett Kavanaugh (Picture: Jamal Hug Pope/Fox News/Facebook)

In his Senate testimony last month, Kavanaugh accused Democrats of orchestrating a partisan campaign against him and said: ‘I’ll be the first justice in the history of the Supreme Court to have a group of all-women law clerks. That is who I am.’

Trump threw his support behind Kavanaugh at the White House, saying he was ‘caught in a hoax set up by the Democrats’.

Robin Kermode is the author of the bestselling book SPEAK SO YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LISTEN available to buy here. He is a popular keynote speaker, one of Europe’s leading communication coaches and founder of the coaching consultancy, Zone 2.